Chocolate Cramique

Chocolate cramique comes from northern France and Belgium. Bakers there have made it for generations. It is part of daily life, not a festive dessert.

Cramique is a soft, lightly sweet bread. It sits between brioche and milk bread. Eggs, butter, and milk give it a rich texture. Bakers add chocolate chips, raisins, or pearl sugar to the dough.
Today, chocolate cramique stands as a small but delicious example of how regional food traditions ignore political borders, evolving instead through local tastes, ingredients, and habits—warm, simple, and meant to be eaten fresh.